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September 3, 2009 1:45:05 PM PDT

ROANOKE RAPIDS --

The Halifax County Sheriff's Office says it's arrested two men for stealing pay phone booths.Click here for photos

Sheriff Jeff Frazier says deputies got a call about suspicious activity in the area of Buttercup Lane in Roanoke Rapids Wednesday night- and arrived to hear a banging noise coming from a nearby corn field.

They checked it out and arrested 41-year-old Thomas Olya Green and 34-year-old John William Butler who they say were beating open the change box on a pay phone.

Investigators say the entire phone booth had been ripped from its foundation with a van and then taken to the field to be opened. Green and Butler are also charged with taking three other phones the same way.

The men were charged with 3 counts of larceny, 3 counts of possession of stolen goods, and 3 counts of damage to a coin operated machine.